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Juneteenth, on the 19th of June, is a holiday celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation—the date chosen to commemorate the arrival of Union soldiers in Galveston, TX to share the news two and a half years after the official date of the proclamation. There’s all kinds of theories as to why it took so dang long, but a lot of it probably comes down to Texas being isolated compared to the rest of the states, and the end of the Civil War not being the cut and dry “it’s over now” that you get early on in school. 

Juneteenth is also called Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, and has been formally recognized—either as an official “holiday” or just marking it as a day of recognition/observance—in all US states except the Dakotas, New Hampshire, Hawaii, and Montana, with Texas having been the first to declare it a state holiday in 1980. The day is represented by a flag with two notable variations:

On this day in 1865 Slavery Was Abolished and White Christian Racism Becomes “Law!”

White Conservative Christians Still Have Not Accepted The Abolition Of Slavery and Equality of the Races!

I finally screwed up the courage to kick this thing off.

I will be making mostly scenarios. I have plans for a great deal of Mutants & Masterminds content, but I want an artist before I do any of that.

So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem. 

BUT! Let’s look closer! 

“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.

See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.

Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.

The only way to make my blog not marked as explicit would be to remove all pics of naked women I posted before I decided to make a separate blog to post pics of women on. Due to how difficult that would be, I deleted my original Tumblr to reclaim this name and started two separate Tumblrs.

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Jobe00likeswomen is a completely separate “explicit” (according to Tumblr/Yahoo/Verizon) NSFW blog instead of a side blog attached to my main.

So you know, if you have a side blog attached to another, they share the daily 250 post limit which can be a massive pain in the ass.

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The only way to make my blog not marked as explicit would be to remove all pics of naked women I posted before I decided to make a separate blog to post pics of women on. Due to how difficult that would be, I deleted my original Tumblr to reclaim this name and started two separate Tumblrs.

Jobe00 will be politics, personal interests, and things that amuse me. It

Jobe00likeswomen is a completely separate “explicit” (according to Tumblr/Yahoo/Verizon) NSFW blog instead of a side blog attached to my main.

So you know, if you have a side blog attached to another, they share the daily 250 post limit which can be a massive pain in the ass.

The only way to make my blog not marked as explicit would be to remove all pics of naked women I posted before I decided to make a separate blog to post pics of women on. Due to how difficult that would be, I deleted my original Tumblr to reclaim this name and started two separate Tumblrs.

Jobe00 will be politics, personal interests, and things that amuse me. It

Jobe00likeswomen is a completely separate “explicit” (according to Tumblr/Yahoo/Verizon) NSFW blog instead of a side blog attached to my main.

So you know, if you have a side blog attached to another, they share the daily 250 post limit which can be a massive pain in the ass.

The only way to make my blog not marked as explicit would be to remove all pics of naked women I posted before I decided to make a separate blog to post pics of women on. Due to how difficult that would be, I deleted my original Tumblr to reclaim this name and started two separate Tumblrs.

Jobe00 will be politics, personal interests, and things that amuse me. It

Jobe00likeswomen is a completely separate “explicit” (according to Tumblr/Yahoo/Verizon) NSFW blog instead of a side blog attached to my main.

So you know, if you have a side blog attached to another, they share the daily 250 post limit which can be a massive pain in the ass.

The only way to make my blog not marked as explicit would be to remove all pics of naked women I posted before I decided to make a separate blog to post pics of women on. Due to how difficult that would be, I deleted my original Tumblr to reclaim this name and started two separate Tumblrs.

Jobe00 will be politics, personal interests, and things that amuse me. It

Jobe00likeswomen is a completely separate “explicit” (according to Tumblr/Yahoo/Verizon) NSFW blog instead of a side blog attached to my main.

So you know, if you have a side blog attached to another, they share the daily 250 post limit which can be a massive pain in the ass.

The only way to make my blog not marked as explicit would be to remove all pics of naked women I posted before I decided to make a separate blog to post pics of women on. Due to how difficult that would be, I deleted my original Tumblr to reclaim this name and started two separate Tumblrs.

Jobe00 will be politics, personal interests, and things that amuse me. It

Jobe00likeswomen is a completely separate “explicit” (according to Tumblr/Yahoo/Verizon) NSFW blog instead of a side blog attached to my main.

So you know, if you have a side blog attached to another, they share the daily 250 post limit which can be a massive pain in the ass.

The only way to make my blog not marked as explicit would be to remove all pics of naked women I posted before I decided to make a separate blog to post pics of women on. Due to how difficult that would be, I deleted my original Tumblr to reclaim this name and started two separate Tumblrs.

Jobe00 will be politics, personal interests, and things that amuse me. It

Jobe00likeswomen is a completely separate “explicit” (according to Tumblr/Yahoo/Verizon) NSFW blog instead of a side blog attached to my main.

So you know, if you have a side blog attached to another, they share the daily 250 post limit which can be a massive pain in the ass.

The only way to make my blog not marked as explicit would be to remove all pics of naked women I posted before I decided to make a separate blog to post pics of women on. Due to how difficult that would be, I deleted my original Tumblr to reclaim this name and started two separate Tumblrs.

Jobe00 will be politics, personal interests, and things that amuse me. It

Jobe00likeswomen is a completely separate “explicit” (according to Tumblr/Yahoo/Verizon) NSFW blog instead of a side blog attached to my main.

So you know, if you have a side blog attached to another, they share the daily 250 post limit which can be a massive pain in the ass.